Aid for Education: More Bang for the Buck (White House and the World Policy Brief)

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Kate Vyborny and Nancy Birdsall

11/04/2008

This White House and the World Policy Brief presents key facts and recommendations drawn from Chapter Thirteen of The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President.

Improving education should be a part of the global development agenda of the next U.S. president. While aid for primary education has always appealed to U.S. policymakers and the public and is consistent with American values of expanding opportunity for all, U.S. aid for education has languished in the past two decades. Aid for health has increased six-fold while aid for education has grown by only a third. The next president should consider announcing U.S. support for a big international push to expand quality primary schooling in low-income countries so that all children have the chance to learn.

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